PC-based modular digital ultrasound imaging system

Author

Hendy, Amr M. ; Hassan, Mawia ; Eldeeb, Rania ; Kholy, Dina ; Youssef, Abou-Bakr ; Kadah, Yasser M.

Author_Institution

Biomed. Eng. Dept., Cairo Univ., Giza, Egypt

fYear

2009

fDate

20-23 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1330

Lastpage

1333

Abstract

With the availability of high-end integrated analog front-ends, distinction between different digital ultrasound systems is determined almost exclusively by their software component. Moreover, PC-based implementations for sophisticated medical imaging technologies have emerged where powerful multi-core computational ability replaces expensive embedded systems. The objective of this work is to develop a modular low-cost PC-based digital ultrasound imaging system that has almost all of its processing steps done on the PC side.

Keywords

biomedical ultrasonics; computerised instrumentation; medical image processing; ultrasonic imaging; PC based imaging system; digital ultrasound imaging system; high end integrated analog front ends; medical imaging technologies; modular imaging system; multicore computational ability; software component; Analog-digital conversion; Array signal processing; Biomedical imaging; Digital signal processing; Embedded computing; Field programmable gate arrays; Filters; Signal design; Signal sampling; Ultrasonic imaging; PC-based ultrasound; PCI-Express bus; digital beamforming; embedded signal processing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), 2009 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Rome

ISSN

1948-5719

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4389-5

Electronic_ISBN

1948-5719

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ULTSYM.2009.5441904

Filename

5441904